6.20.2009

Burma's generals must free Aung San Suu Kyi and embrace democracy

  • Gordon Brown
  • June 19, 2009

Today is the 64th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi. The fact that she remains under arrest is tragic for Burma and for all those who believe in democracy. The trial of Ms Suu Kyi is an absurd mockery of justice. The real injustice was not that someone broke into her compound, but that she was imprisoned in the first place.

Ms Suu Kyi has now been imprisoned for 13 of the past 19 years, since the party she led won the last elections in her country.

More than 2000 others are imprisoned across Burma for sharing her commitment to a better future for the long-suffering population.

Even in the face of such injustice, Ms Suu Kyi has always supported the path of peace and reconciliation. But the regime has consistently spurned her offer of dialogue and reconciliation. It wants to isolate her from the people of Burma, for whom she has long been a symbol of hope and defiance.

Her refusal to buckle in the face of tyranny is an inspiration. But words of support are not enough. The region, the European Union and the United Nations are all urging the junta to release Ms Suu Kyi. So far all requests for moderation have been spurned. In the face of such obstinacy, the world must now act. I believe there are three things we must do.

First, we need to support the countries of the region as they step up efforts to secure democracy and reconciliation. I have been struck by how Burma's neighbours have led the world in calling for Ms Suu Kyi's release. We need to translate this outrage into political pressure for change.

Second, we need the UN Security Council to reinforce its calls for Ms Suu Kyi's release and to support the Secretary-General's efforts to bring about political progress through an early visit to Burma.

Third, we should impose a new set of tough sanctions that target the regime's economic interests. We will be pushing for stronger EU action in this regard. Such a step would hit the business interests of the generals and their cronies.

I also believe we should identify and target those judges complicit in the recent political show trials.

The growing sense of outrage and the unity of the international community behind this message should mark a turning point. The regime is at a crossroads. Long-promised elections in 2010 will remain a charade while political prisoners are being tortured, ethnic minorities are persecuted, the media muzzled, freedom of speech and assembly are non-existent and Ms Suu Kyi is silenced. The regime can choose to ignore the clamour for change. But this will only condemn the country to deeper isolation, poverty, conflict and despair.

Or it can choose the path of reform, as the region has urged. Burma is rich in natural and human resources, at the heart of a dynamic continent. Democratic reform would unleash the country's enormous potential. Britain and the international community would be ready to extend the hand of friendship. If the Burmese generals rethink their ways, we will be ready to recognise and embrace any genuine reforms they make.

Some may question why Burma warrants so much attention. There are other countries where human rights are ignored or people live in poverty. But the Burmese junta stands virtually alone in the scale of its misrule and the sheer indifference to the suffering of its 50 million people. How we respond to this injustice will send a message about our resolution to tackle similar injustices across the globe.

To those that stand for human rights, freedom and democracy, our message remains clear - you are not alone.

Gordon Brown is the British Prime Minister.

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ျမန္မာ့သတင္း ကမာၻ႕သတင္း

EU flag outside European Commission's Berlaymont building

ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေမြးေန႔မွာပဲ အီးယူ ဥေရာပအဖြဲ႕၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေတြက ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေပၚ ပိတ္ဆို႔အေရးယူမႈေတြ ပိုတိုးၿပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမယ္လုိ႔ ေၾကညာပါတယ္။


ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ေမြးေန႔ ဧရာဝတီပရိသတ္မ်ား ဂုဏ္ျပဳ

ယမန္ေန႔က က်ေရာက္သည့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ၆၄ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႔ အမွတ္တရ အျဖစ္ ဧရာဝတီက အင္တာနက္ စာမ်က္ႏွာတခု သီးသန္႔ ဖြင့္ထားရာ

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေမြးေန႔ ရန္ကုန္တြင္ လုံၿခံဳေရးတင္းက်ပ္

ယေန႔ က်ေရာက္သည့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ၆၄ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ေမြးေန႔တြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာႏုိင္သည့္ ဆႏၵျပမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ လူထုလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ားကို ၿဖဳိခြင္းႏုိင္ရန္ စစ္အစုိးရက ရန္ကုန္

“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ျပႆနာ ဘာလုပ္ႏိုင္မလဲ”

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕ ခ်ဴလာေလာင္ကြန္း တကၠသိုလ္၌ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ သံတမန္မ်ား အပါအဝင္ လူ ၁၀၀ ေက်ာ္ က ယမန္ေန႔တြင္ “ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ျပႆနာ ဘာလုပ္ႏိုင္မလဲ” ဟူေသာ ေခါင္းစဥ္ျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေရးကို တက္ေရာက္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။

က်မရဲ႔ သူရဲေကာင္း ရင္ထဲက ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္

ပြင့္ျဖဴနႏၵာ (၁၁ ႏွစ္၊ ၆ တန္း)

ဇြန္ ၂၀၊ ၂၀၀၉

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာ သမီးရဲ႔ သူရဲေကာင္းၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အတြက္ ေမြးေန ့လက္ေဆာင္အၿဖစ္ သမီးရဲ႔ကဗ်ာကို ဖတ္ၿပပါ့မယ္။

Our Hero Who Will Always Be in Our Hearts

Pwintphyu Nandar

Born on June 19, 1945

Born to her proud parents

General Aung San & Daw Khin Kyi
အျပည့္အစုံသိုႛ ...

၆၄ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေဒၚစု ေမြးေန႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္
ဓာတ္ပုံသတင္း
ဇြန္ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၀၉ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕
ယေန႔က်ေရာက္သည့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ၆၄ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႔ပြဲ ႏုိင္ငံတကာတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ၾကသည္။ တခ်ဳိ႕က ျမန္မာသံရုံးမ်ားေရွ႕သုိ႔ သြားေရာက္ ဆႏၵျပၾကသည္။ တခ်ဳိ႕က ေဒၚစုေမြးေန႔အထိမ္းအမွတ္ အျဖစ္ ေကာင္းမႈ ကုသုိလ္မ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ၾကသည္။ (ဓာတ္ပုံမ်ား-getty images)
အျပည့္အစုံသိုႛ ...


အင္န္အယ္ဒီပါတီဌာနခ်ဳပ္တြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ၆၄ ေမြးေန႔ က်င္းပ

မိုးမခ ဓာတ္ပုံသတင္း

ဇြန္ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၀၉

ယေန႔ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႔၊ ဗဟန္း ေရႊဂုံတိုင္ရွိ အင္န္အယ္ဒီပါတီဌာနခ်ဳပ္တြင္ ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ ပါတီ၀င္မ်ား၊ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္လူငယ္မ်ား၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ား၊ မိသားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ ပါတီ၏ အမ်ဳိးသမီး ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားျဖင့္ ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ၆၄ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႔ ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အခမ္းအနားကို ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ က်င္းပႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္။

အျပည့္အစုံသိုႛ ...

Maung Yit - Happy Birthday DASSK @ 64
June 19th 2009

မုန္တိုင္းသင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားအား ဂ်ပန္အစိုးရက ေဒၞလာ ၄သန္းေထာက္ပံ့


ေဒၞေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ အရွင္ဂမႝီရ ေမြးေနႛအခမ္းအနားမ်ား က်င္းပ

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႔ႏွင့္ ဘန္ေကာက္တို႔တြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေမြးေန႔ပြဲမ်ား က်င္းပ

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